Example sentences of "why they [verb] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | because what they 've done on that pattern , why they 've got so many different colours , where it mixes so you 've got your red and your |
| 2 | Ranulf believed the French were responsible ; Corbett at first agreed , but then queried why they had waited so long and privately concluded that the attackers were from Lord Bruce 's retinue . |
| 3 | Desperately she fought back the tears , not knowing why they had formed so swiftly . |
| 4 | That was why they had drifted apart . |
| 5 | That was why they had seemed so dreamily bright before . |
| 6 | He ruled out further help for the legalized opposition parties , saying that they needed time to win supporters , and that was why they had fared badly in the April elections . |
| 7 | And Britain 's swim pin-up Sharon Davies added : ‘ We have all been told not to talk about the Chinese and why they have done so well here . ’ |
| 8 | Aberdeen 's Eoin Jess , in the starting line-up for the first time , was the most consistent player throughout but the longer the game went on , the more Malta demonstrated why they have proved so difficult to beat . |
| 9 | Eoin Jess was the most consistent player throughout but the longer the game went on , the more Malta demonstrated why they have proved so difficult to beat . |
| 10 | But those who hate the nostalgia of the elderly should remember that one of the reasons why they want to talk so much about the past may be that , for them , the present is unbearable , and the future unthinkable . |